Volunteering

This year, The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service (QAVS) is running a special additional award to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee to celebrate the fantastic work by national charities and their volunteers to empower young people and provide them with skills and opportunities.

Manchester Volunteer Advice Partnership (MVAP) run 9-week training courses (sessions every Tuesday) teaching you how to give good quality advice on welfare benefits and housing, as well as assertiveness and communication skills. During this training, you will also be placed at either Manchester Refugee Support Network (MRSN) or Cheetham Hill Advice Centre (CHAC) for half a week day to volunteer as an advice worker.

Manchester Volunteer Advice Partnership (MVAP) are offering three free, Understanding the System workshops, which aim to empower local people to help themselves and each other. You can come to one or all of the workshops, which are split up as follows:

10 May: Housing – Landlord and tenant responsibilities and how to deal with issues, Housing options in Manchester and help with housing costs

In honour of Her Majesty The Queen and the great example she has set in her 70 years of service, Royal Voluntary Service has launched the Platinum Champions Awards for volunteers.

Are you a voluntary or community group or a social enterprise in Manchester? Have your say on support services to help you!

Manchester City Council and Manchester Health Care Commissioning have commissioned Forever Consulting to find out what support voluntary and community groups and social enterprises in Manchester need to deliver their work and achieve their goals.

Step Up MCR is the new place-based giving scheme for Manchester primarily focusing on the neighbourhoods of Ancoats and Beswick and Clayton and Openshaw.

Step Up MCR brings people together from within the community to maximise on our human potential, energy, skills, and resilience for the benefit of local people.

Volition is pleased to be expanding its services to Salford. Volition is a friendly charity that seeks to help unemployed people increase their employability through volunteering. Volition are taking on new people all the time and hold regular open days and information events.

MVAP run 9-week training courses (sessions every Wednesday) teaching you how to give good quality advice on welfare benefits and housing, as well as assertiveness and communication skills.

The next sessions are running on: 1 February, 1pm at St. James Moss Side Church (95A Princess Rd, Manchester) and 9 February, 3.30pm at St Matthews Church (Cleveland Rd, Crumpsall, Manchester).

The Vision for Volunteering team has announced that their first workshops are now open for sign-ups. These workshops will help inform England’s Vision for Volunteering; a cross-sector consultation designed to develop a shared, actions-focused ambition for volunteering.

The consultation is led by NAVCA, NCVO, Volunteering Matters, the Association of Volunteer Managers, and Sport England.